...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis Th... ...arco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to the West One precept of the Koran states that the human world’s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing... ... to make only a few sounds, such as nasal consonants like ―m‖ or ―n.‖ Lowering the larynx improved the quality of our vowels and made speech easi... ...the nostrils. That produces mostly nasal sounds. Human voice boxes sit lower in the throat. When we talk, most of the air passes out through our ... ...ieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central heating system with underground furnaces and ti... ...he main floor below.) A small glassed-in enclosure next to the newsroom houses noisy clattering teletypes. They spit out an endless stream of wire...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books...

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...